Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

12.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

15.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

20.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

21.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

24.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

25.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

26.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

27.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

28.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

31.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

32.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

33.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

34.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

35.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

36.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

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43.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

44.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

45.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

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